Doesn’t happen to solar plants.
Their nuclear reactor goes away every night though.
Obviously the solution to that is to put mirrors in space to reflect sunlight so their collectors also work at night.
France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
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Re: France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because they need more battery storage, which Europe is rapidly building.
It can't come fast enough! I have a friend who works on battery storage in Europe and it sounds like an extremely busy time for them, which I'm glad for.
Is it iron-air batteries?
Re: France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
#14Doesn’t happen to solar plants.
It does when it rains, or it's too cloudy, or it snows, or the panels are dirty. Or, y'know, nighttime.
Re: France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their nuclear reactor goes away every night though.
Obviously the solution to that is to put mirrors in space to reflect sunlight so their collectors also work at night.
Looks like someone had the same idea https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/reflect-o...
Re: France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
#16So yeah in the mostly probable case that reading was not involved in many of the comments, they were not shut down for a technical issue but the govt stops them from discharging the water. All the reactor works fine and would work fine. Gov makes choice to let people hurt
Indeed, it's mentioned in the article: "The measure is an environmental protection requirement to avoid discharging too much hot water into rivers already warming from the heatwave."
France (and to a lesser extent large parts of europe) is currently suffering from an exceptional heat wave.
Re: France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
#17So yeah in the mostly probable case that reading was not involved in many of the comments, they were not shut down for a technical issue but the govt stops them from discharging the water. All the reactor works fine and would work fine. Gov makes choice to let people hurt
You kinda don’t want to kill the whole river ecosystem. We need a functioning environment
Re: France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
#18They should figure out a way to use the heatwave to drive a turbine.
Re: France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
#19They should figure out a way to use the heatwave to drive a turbine.
It’s always a problem of too much entropy.
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